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Published June 15, 2007 11:33 pm - The good thing about having your own newspaper column is that occasionally you can stand up and do the right thing to help people. Mike Pound: Actor does not deserve the humiliation The good thing about having your own newspaper column is that occasionally you can stand up and do the right thing to help people.
You can make a difference. You can be a voice for those little people out there who have no voice. People who must put up with abuse because they aren’t in a position to fight back. You know, people like Matthew McConaughey. As I understand it, Matthew is some sort of actor and for some reason the folks at People Magazine decided to humiliate him on the pages of their publication. The folks at People Magazine recently voted Matthew “bachelor of the year.” I know! What were the folks at People Magazine (or is it “people at Folks Magazine?”) thinking? What sort of cruel, heartless human would do something as degrading as call someone a “bachelor of the year”? Look, because someone is unable to attract a mate doesn’t mean you have to splash his name and picture all across the cover of your magazine. So what if Matthew is apparently so unattractive that he can’t find someone to marry him? Does that make him any less of a person? I think not. Besides, it’s one thing to have to live your life as a bachelor, but it’s another thing to be reminded that you’re not marriage material. Matthew: (Phone rings) Hello. People Magazine: How are you Matthew? Matthew: OK, I guess. Sort of depressed, but I’m holding up. People Magazine: Good because we’re going to name you “bachelor of the year.” Matthew: AARRRRRRGGGHHH! Think of it, you a relatively young, Hollywood movie star with no one waiting at home for you. No one to tell you what time to be home. No one to tell you what to wear, or who to hang out with. Instead of having one woman in your life, you have to somehow learn to live with going out with a different super-model every night. It’s a crying shame is what it is. And it’s not as if the folks at People Magazine did Matthew any favors in the way they handled his election as “bachelor of the year.” I mean look at the photo they put of Matthew on the cover of their magazine. He’s on some beach and he’s not wearing a shirt. Come on, is that the sort of thing women of today want to see? A young, healthy, muscular actor cavorting topless on the beach? I think not. 
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